Median elevation
10 m
range 0–97 m
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Housing
Ellis Beach
Queensland · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Ellis Beach is a coastal suburb of Cairns.
Household income
$725/wk3rd pctile
of 3,112 QLD suburbs
Amenity score
5/10028th pctile
of 1,584 rated QLD suburbs
Median house price
No open median house price for Ellis Beach.
Queensland sells its property sales records through licensed brokers rather than publishing them openly, so there is no official suburb median we can show. ABS median established-house price, Greater Brisbane: $1.1M; Rest of Qld: $815k.
How it compares
Household income / wk3rd percentile
<$575ABS Census 2021$3,778+
Percentiles rank this suburb against Queensland suburbs that carry the metric — never across states, and never against suburbs where it is missing. Price references are ABS median established-house transfer prices for the Mar 2026 quarter (CC BY 4.0); the suburb figure is a Valuer-General median over a different window, so read the gap as indicative. Income references are the Census 2021 median of the middle suburb in Queensland and nationally, not a household-weighted median.
People & housing
Population
5
Median age
54 yrs
Income / person / wk
$612
Household income / wk
$725
▼ 53% vs QLD
Housing stock
6 occupied private dwellings
ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Terrain & hazard exposure
Land below 5 m
40%
34% below 2 m
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. Includes the potential-impact buffer around bushfire prone vegetation. Mapping vintages differ by region (South East Queensland 2017, elsewhere 2014). Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled. No open statutory flood layer is published for Queensland yet.
Planning & zoning
Listed heritage places
0
State-listed only (Qld Heritage Register)
Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Listed-place counts follow each state's own list, so they do not compare across states. Queensland has no statewide zoning map — each council publishes its own. Source: Queensland Heritage Register.
Local amenities
Schools
0
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
1
Parks
0
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
5.1 km
Nearest train
10.4 km
Nearest hospital
24.1 km
Distance to coast
0.6 km
Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 9.3 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Cairns
- Population
- 179,334 (2025) · +1.0% in a year
- Area / density
- 1,689 km² · 106/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 39 · $1,578/wk household income · $340/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $615k
- Federal grants
- $5.23M in 2025-26 · $29/resident
- Website
- cairns.qld.gov.au
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2023-24. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. ABS and Dept of Infrastructure data CC BY 4.0; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Leichhardt
- Federal MP
- Matt Smith (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 56% 2PP
- State electorate
- Barron River
- State MP
- Bree James (LNP)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); Bushfire Prone Area — Queensland series, Queensland Fire Department (CC BY 4.0); Queensland Heritage Register boundaries, Queensland Government (CC BY 4.0); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.